Sonata (concertino) in A minor by Giuseppe Torelli (1658-1709). Edited by Michael Talbot. For 2 Violins, basso continuo. Full score and parts. 35 pages. Duration 7 minutes. Published by Edition HH Music Publishers (HH.HH118-FSP).
ISBN 1-904229-93-X.
This highly interesting work, published here for the first time, exists in two versions, both authentic. The original version, entitled 'Concertino', is a sonata for two violins with concerto-like elements. The later version turns the work into a full-blown concerto for four solo violins and orchestral strings. The present edition is of the chamber version, which must rank among the most exhilarating examples of Italian chamber music before Vivaldi.

Sonata (sinfonia) in A major by Giuseppe Torelli (1658-1709). Edited by Michael Talbot. For 2 Violins, basso continuo (strings ad lib.). Full score and parts. 41 pages. Duration 7 minutes. Published by Edition HH Music Publishers (HH.HH117-FSP).
ISBN 1-904229-92-1.
This impressive sinfonia, published here for the first time, exists in two versions, both authentic. The original version is a sonata for two violins with strong concerto-like elements. The later version turns the work into a fully fledged concerto for two solo violins and orchestral strings (now including viola and violone). Either version can be played from the present score and parts.

Sonata for violin, cello and basso continuo by Giuseppe Torelli (1658-1709). Edited by Michael Talbot. For Violin, Violoncello, basso continuo. Full score and parts. 37 pages. Duration 7 minutes. Published by Edition HH Music Publishers (HH.HH116-FSP).
ISBN 1-904229-80-8.
A little-known manuscript in the British Library contains one of only two known sonatas by him for violin, obbligato cello and continuo. In this rare type of sonata the cello becomes a full partner to the violin (which one could liken to a second violin playing an octave lower than usual) rather than an adjunct to the continuo line. The four-movement sonata in A in London, which the immigrant musician Johann Christoph Pepusch may have acquired from Torelli in Berlin just before journeying to England in 1697, is an exciting piece offering much opportunity for virtuosic display, often in dialogue form, by both violin and cello. One realizes, reading or playing this work, how much Bach and other Germans owed to Torelli, of whose inventive music they had knowledge a good ten or twenty years before Vivaldi arrived on the scene.

Three Duets by Giuseppe Torelli (1658-1709). Edited by Michael Talbot. For Two violins. Full score and parts. 30 pages. Duration 6 minutes. Published by Edition HH Music Publishers (HH.HH113-FSP).
ISBN 1-904229-79-4.
These will be found excellent pieces for violinists to study and play with their teachers, and are also well suited to recital programmes (they will make marvellous encores!). They reflect their composer's activity as a teacher and perhaps also his Wanderjahre in Germany as an itinerant virtuoso during the short period when the orchestra of the Bolognese church of San Petronio, of which he was a leading member, was suspended.

Sonata in C major (RV 801) by Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741). Edited by Rebecca Kan. For Flute (oboe), violin (oboe), violoncello (bassoon) and basso continuo. Full score and parts. 43 pages. Published by Edition HH Music Publishers (HH.HH054-FSP).
ISBN 1-904229-00-X.
Unique among VivaldiOs instrumental works is a quadro which has recently been authenticated and given the catalogue number RV 801. This work is published here for the first time in modern critical edition. Scored for three solo instruments and basso continuo, it contains a wealth of concertante elements, bringing to mind the style of the Venetian composerOs concertos. The eight possible instrumental combinations make the sonata accessible to a wide range of ensembles.